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<span class=large>THE PROVERBS</span>
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CHAPTER 5
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Those who embrace immoral women go down to hell—Rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
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My</span> son, attend unto my wisdom, <i>and</i> bow thine ear to my understanding:
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That thou mayest regard discretion, and <i>that</i> thy lips may keep knowledge.
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&#182; For the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/5/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Lust.">lips</a> of a <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/5/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Prov. 2: 16; Alma 39: 3.">strange</a> woman drop <i>as</i> an honeycomb, and her mouth <i>is</i> smoother than oil:
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But her <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/5/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 7: 27; Jacob 2: 35 (27-35).">end</a> is <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/5/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Eccl. 7: 26.">bitter</a> as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
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Her feet go down to <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/5/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sexual Immorality.">death</a>; her steps take hold on <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/5/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Damnation.">hell</a>.
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Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, <i>that</i> thou canst not know <i>them.</i>
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Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="prov/5/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 39: 9 (9-11).">Remove</a> thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
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Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
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Lest strangers be filled with thy <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/5/10a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR strength.">wealth</a>; and thy labours <i>be</i> in the house of a stranger;
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And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
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And say, How have I hated <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/5/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 101: 5 (1-5).">instruction</a>, and my heart despised reproof;
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And have not <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/5/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Disobedience.">obeyed</a> the voice of my <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/5/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Teachers.">teachers</a>, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
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I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
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&#182; Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
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Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, <i>and</i> rivers of waters in the streets.
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Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
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Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/5/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Family, Love within; TG Marriage, Husbands.">wife</a> of thy youth.
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<i>Let her be as </i>the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/5/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 42: 22.">love</a>.
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And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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For the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/5/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 119: 168.">ways</a> of man <i>are</i> before the <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/5/21b" mark="b" type="A" title="Heb. 4: 13.">eyes</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and he <sup>c</sup><a href="prov/5/21c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 20; D&C 38: 2 (1-2).">pondereth</a> all his goings.
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&#182; His own <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/5/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 7: 2.">iniquities</a> shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/5/22b" mark="b" type="A" title="Alma 12: 11 (10-11); Alma 36: 18; Moses 7: 26.">cords</a> of his sins.
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He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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